The first pictures of Earth taken from space showed a solid ball covered by brown and green landmasses and blue-green oceans.

VOA: special.2011.01.04

Space scientists have collected a wealth of information from spacecraft that have orbited,landed on and dug into the Martian surface.

VOA: special.2010.07.28

But seeing Earth from space may soon become a reality for wealthy people who dream of space travel.

VOA: special.2009.12.18

Yet,it took some time for the team to confirm that the amino acid glycine came from space.

VOA: special.2009.09.30

Many scientists believe that a huge object from space hit Earth about 65 million years ago.

VOA: special.2009.01.20

The two government agencies have been studying Arctic Sea ice from space since nineteen seventy-nine.

VOA: special.2009.05.05

The presence of carbon thirteen confirmed that the glycine was from space.

VOA: special.2009.09.30

But scientists think it was either a comet or rock from space.

VOA: special.2009.08.25

For a while, there was no communication from space to Earth.

VOA: special.2009.07.01

Some are so large that they can be seen from space.

VOA: special.2010.08.10

Frank Borman's disappointed words from space told the story.

VOA: special.2009.07.01

Then a voice came down from space.

VOA: special.2009.06.24

The Dixie Crossroads restaurant in Titusville depends on business from space workers.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

The new space agency was given a lot of money and thousands of engineers and technicians from military and civilian agencies.

VOA: special.2009.06.10

The atmosphere is about twenty-percent oxygen and eighty percent nitrogen from Earth's surface to where space begins at one-hundred-twenty kilometers up.

VOA: special.2011.04.06

Rockman imagines a terrible future in which plants and animals must be sent into space to protect them from Earth's pollution.

VOA: special.2010.12.15

He also produced the thirteen-part series, "From the Earth to the Moon" because of his support for human space travel.

VOA: special.2011.06.17

Scientists at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt,Maryland, found the substance glycine in material brought back to Earth from a comet.

VOA: special.2009.09.30

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA, launched Columbia from Kennedy Space Center on April twelfth nineteen eighty-one.

VOA: special.2011.07.27

This is a big change from earlier models where NASA led and controlled the development of space vehicles.

VOA: special.2010.04.28

The astronauts' decrease in bone strength measured from point six percent to five percent for each month spent on the space station.

VOA: special.2009.03.10

Much of what was learned from its flights speeded up the development of the space program.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

One of the most important was how to design the special clothing needed to protect a person from the dangers of the space environment.

VOA: special.2011.04.06

Newspapers in the United States earn most of their money from selling space for advertising.

VOA: special.2009.04.20